The ReportLab Open Source PDF library is a proven industry-strength
python-based PDF generating solution, suitable for web publishers,
developers or creative design professionals who need to quickly and
easily create or automate complex (even data-driven) documents.
It is released by ReportLab Inc., under BSD license.

It includes binary extensions (previously available separately)
_rl_accel and renderPM

It has the following features:
- create professional portable documents
- real document layout engine (Platypus)
- flowable objects (paragraphs, headlines, tables, images, graphics, etc.)
- arbitrary Type-1 fonts
- bitmap images, vector graphics
- library of reusable primitive shapes
- extensible widget library
- layered architecture
- includes simple demos and more complex tools
- allows for any data sources
- strong community support
- platform-independent
- includes PythonPoint - PDF Presentation Tool

If pil (Python Imaging library) is installed (it is also available from
Slackbuilds.org), reportlab can use it for working with bitmap images.
